Announcements and Reminders:
Please remember to NOT wear fragrances to class!  Please remember to NOT wear fragrances to class! Sign-ups are now available for your Book-of-the-Month book. Sign up by September 27 -- this Wednesday.   |
Targets for Today:
1. I can proofread sentences to find any errors, and recognize a complete, correct sentence.
2. I understand what makes a piece of writing effective. 3. I can collect evidence about an issue as I read. |
Today’s Agenda:
1. Individual Reading time and R.I. (for those who didn't finish) in lab 224.
Have you taken the R.I. (online reading test)? Have you finished the R.I.? If you have, you'll have time to sample books, or to read your book-of-the-month. B-Day classes: We had planned to finish up the RI today, but it is not working! 😞 Por favor lee un libro. Begin class with some time to read your book of the month, or to sample books you might want to use. Sign up if you have decided on a book.
2. CSI Sentence
 Tape the handout into your composition book under CSI Sentences/Grammar. Page 83/84 +
Label this CSI #7 and add today's date.
The following sentence is from Roland Smith, Jack's Run (2007).
Only one version of
the sentence is written correctly. Label it CORRECT,
For
each of the rest there is ONE thing wrong.
Tell what is wrong
with each of the incorrect sentences.
I have done the first.
1) The phone rang, but Mack don't
get up to answer it.
______It should be “didn’t”
of “did not” instead of “don’t_______
This is a problem with tense and
with number.___________________
2) The phone rang, but Mack did not
get up
to answer
it. ________________________________________
3) The phone rang, Mack did not get up
to answer it.
_________________________________________________________________________
4) The phone rang, but mack did not get
up to answer it.
_________________________________________________________________________
5) The phone rang, so Mack did not get
up to answer it.
_________________________________________________________________________
3. What makes good writing?
Use this link: What makes good writing?
A1 and A2 did not get to this.
4. Prewriting: Should Johnny be punished for killing Bob? Use the handout provided to collect evidence -- for both sides of the argument.
¿Debería Johhny ir a prisión por matar a Bob?
Use el folleto proporcionado para recopilar evidencia - para ambos lados del argumento.
and Reading The Outsiders:
Did you finish answering the questions on your reading guide for Chapters 3 and 4?
Are you still adding to your character chart?
Last Time:
A1 to page 61, top, ". . . get my head busted in." 27:04
A2 to page 61, top, ". . . only thing Dally did honestly." 26:48
B5 to page 58, top of the page. 21:00
B7 to page 58, top of the page. 21:00 Track 45, part 1
This Time:
A1 to page -- We did not get to The Outsiders today.
A2 to page -- We did not get to The Outsiders today.
B5 to page -- page 60, "He didn't notice, and left us sitting on the bed."
Track 45, part 1, 26:01
B7 to page -- page 70 , "Fancy meetin' you here." Track 45, part 2, 13:06
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If You Were Absent:
See above.
CSI 7 Correct Sentence.docx -- Complete this assignment and tape it into your composition book.
What makes good writing -- Chimpanzees.docx -- Read the four passages that are about the same topic. What makes one better than another?
This was an in-class discussion. Read our results at What makes good writing? |
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park is about a much older era in Korea and about making a very special sort of pottery
Choi, Sook Nyul. Echoes of the white giraffe. New York : Dell, 1995.
Fifteen-year-old Sookan adjusts to life in the refugee village in Pusan but continues to hope
that the civil war will end and her family will be reunited in Seoul.
Year of Impossible Goodbyes Sook Nyul Choi (Author)
Vocabulary:
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